If you are in the market for a new fitness band, Amazon has just announced a new option.
Amazon’s new Halo fitness band and app can scan your body and listen to your voice for $99.99
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Amazon’s shopping app brings enhanced AR tools
Augmented reality has a few quite legitimate use cases, like home furnishing. Ikea uses augmented reality in its Place app to a great success, and now Amazon's expanded augmented reality capabilities of its shopping app with a new Room Decorator feature making it easy to create more than a hundred different configurations consisting of dozens of virtual products.
Amazon rumored to incorporate free podcasts into its Music and Audible services
People who subscribe to Amazon Music or the company's audiobook service, Audible, may reportedly soon be able to download and enjoy free podcasts using each service.
Microsoft is ending support for Cortana on iOS
As companies were jumping on the digital assistant bandwagon, Microsoft launched its own alternative: Cortana. It proved to be plenty helpful, but Google's and Amazon's dominance in this regard (across platforms, and Siri on iOS) forced Microsoft to make some tough decisions.
Emails reveal Steve Jobs, other executives discussing why iPhone owners can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps
Yesterday, a handful of CEOs that compromise "Big Tech" testified as part of a probe into antitrust behavior. Now, thanks to Congress, emails released to the government as part of that investigation are coming to light and revealing some interesting things.
Amazon overhauls Alexa app around core functionality rather than third-party apps
Amazon has overhauled its mobile Alexa app for iPhone and iPad around first-party features.
An Apple-backed research report says the App Store’s fees are similar to other marketplaces
Apple is facing more than one antitrust probe regarding the App Store and the fees associated with the digital marketplace, so it's not surprising to see the company come out swinging with a commissioned report showing why it's not in the wrong.
Amazon’s Alexa will be able to launch Android and iOS apps using voice commands soon
It's a relatively painless process to use Siri and ask the digital assistant to launch an app on your iPhone or iPad, but for folks who prefer to use Amazon's option, Alexa isn't quite there yet.
The EU has launched a probe into the Internet of Things, targeting Siri, Alexa, and more
The European Union has decided that yet another investigatory probe is required into consumer-facing products, and Apple is included in this net, too.
Alexa for iPhone gains voice activation, but it’s hardly hands-free as Amazon is calling it
Amazon is allowing users of its Alexa mobile app to use the smart assistant without having to touch the Alexa button at the bottom control bar for voice control. However, the online retail giant calling this feature "hands-free" voice activation is stretching it a bit.
Tim Cook agrees to testify in upcoming U.S. tech antitrust probe
There had been speculation that Apple CEO Tim Cook would not be participating in an upcoming antitrust probe in the United States, but it turns out Cook will participate after all.
Vizio confirms the Apple TV app will arrive ‘later this summer’
While Vizio has been rolling out support for AirPlay 2 and HomeKit for a wide range of its TVs for quite some time now, the Apple TV app has been missing from the equation. But the company is changing that this year.